ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,515, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Dynamic allocation of compute resources for highlight generation in cloud gaming systems" was invented by Stephen Holmes (Fort Collins, Colo.) and Pierre Gervais (Blainville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, compute resources may be allocated for highlight generation in cloud gaming systems. Systems and methods are disclosed that distribute, between and among various devices, processing including user interface generation and overlay, analysis of game streams for actionable events, generation of highlights, storage of highlights, an...